Blaze heavily damages Snow's Restaurant

Firefighters work through a hole chopped in the roof of Snow's Restaurant to extinguish a fire reported about 12:25 this morning at the seafood restaurant at 321 West Boylston St. (T&G Staff/WINSTON W. WILEY)

WORCESTER 
Firefighters kept an early morning fire contained to the ceiling area at Snow's Restaurant and Pub, 321 West Boylston St. It was initially thought the restaurant would open today. It will not.

The fire broke out about 12:30 this morning. The owner of the restaurant had left about 11:15 last night, according to Deputy Fire Chief Geoffrey Gardell. Snow's had undergone extensive renovations in the past year.

Firefighters cut a hole in the roof of the restaurant to vent the heat and flames and fought the fire from both the roof and inside the seafood restaurant. Fire could be seen jumping through the roof.

There were no injuries reported. Fire officials are still investigating, but the fire may have been caused by an electrical problem, according to Chief Gardell.

About 30 minutes earlier, firefighters were summoned to a five-story brick building for reports of a fire in a fifth-floor apartment at 765 Main St.

There are approximately 80 tenants in the building. Tenants threw buckets of water at fire in Apt. 507A, according to Chief Gardell. He said the fire was contained to that apartment.

There were no injuries reported. The cause of the fire in under investigation.